Roller-bearing.



A. K. WHITMER.

ROLLER BEARING.

APPLICATION men JuNEzs. 1915.

1,166,798, Patented Jan. 4I, 1916.

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1,166,798. i specification' of Letters raient. y Patented Jan', 4, 19101 Application filed June 2S', 1915. Serial No. 36,603. j I

To all whom it may conce/m: v bars being provided along each Ofitslateral Be it known that I, ARTHUR K.,W1i ifr edges with a downwardly depending'ilange 50 MER, a citizen of the United States, residing 8. The flanges upon each bar 7 are inclined at Canton, in the county of Stark and State away from each other-,1 thus forming a of Ohio, have invented a new and useful trough, between each pair of adjacent bars,

Roller-Bearing, of which the following is arranged to receive a roller 1. A wing 9 is specification. Y formed around the peripheryy of the ring 5 55:-

' This invention relates to improvements in adjacent each of the bars 7, each of said cages for roller bearings and one obiect of wings being provided with an .in-turned the same is to produce a cage which will adroller retaininglportion 10 which is preferymit of easy assembling of the rollers in ably tapered. Similar wings 11 are pro" position.

and minor details of construction may be 9 and 11 are then bent into the -position made within the scope of the appended shown in the drawings, thus retaining the place, and thereafter retaining the same in vided around thev periphery o the ring 6 `60 adiacent` each ofthe bars 7 said wings 11- Another object is to provide a verysiinbeing provided lwith the roller retaii'iing` ple construction adapted to be stamped from portion-1 2. It will be understood that the@l a single sheet of material. retaining portions 10 and 12 upon the wings With these objects in view the invention are preferably curved to fit the rollers, said 65 i Sconsists in the 'novel construction and arconstruction being best illustrated in Fig. 1. f

rangement of parts, hereinafter described, In assembling theroll'ers the wings9and 11 f illustrated in the accompanying drawings, 1 are in the position shown at 9 in dotted lines and particularly p ointed out in' the apinFig. 3. A roller is placed betweeneach ended claim, it being understood that va# of the bars 7., said roller resting between the 70 I rious changes in the form, proportions, size adjacent flanges 8 and the adjacent wings vclaim without departing from the spi-rit or roller in the proper position within thecage.'`

sacrificing any of the advantages of the in- Wlien it is desired to remove any particular 7 5'.-y

venton. V roller the accompanying wings 9 and 11 are In the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 bent into the original position and the roller i is a side elevation of a complete roller bearmay be lifted out of the cage. v ing. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of Although the drawings and above specithe same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a fication disclose the best Inode.A in which I 80 guresof the drawings.

ortion of the cage. have contemplated embodying my invention Similar numerals of reference indicate' I desire to be not limited to the details of corresponding parts throughout the several such-disclosure, for, in the further practical application of my4 invention, many changes Referring to said drawings, the inner inform and construction maybe made, as 85 bearing for supporting the rollers A is in the circumstances require or experience siig-l form of a conical sleeve 3, the inner surface gests, without departing from the spirit of.

of which is of the proper slope to conform the invention, within the scope of the I ap Y I to that of the adjacent contacting faces of pended claim. f j

the rollers.

The cage is for the purposeof holding the An integral pressed steel cage for a rolle 1 rollers in proper spaced relation between bearing, comprising two annular"porti ons,a the bearings, said cage being stamped from series of cross-bars formed integral with sheet material to form the annularportions said annular portions and connected thereto 5 and 6 of different diameterslconiiected at at their inner diameters, downwardly" andfm v 'intervals by a series cf bars Leach ofsaid voutwardly extending flanges provided .upii

I claim: 9,0

saidrcross bars forming an inwardly tapere roller pocket between. each adjacent pair of cross bars, Wings formed upon the peripheries of said rings adjacent each extremity of each of said Cross bars and adapted to be bent into a position parallel with said cross bars after the rollers have been inserted in the pockets7 and an inwardly disposed., ta-

pered retaining portion formed upon each of said wings and adapted to terminate arllo jacent the outer face of the adjacent cross bar.

In testimony that I claim the above, l have hereunto subscribed my name.

ARTHUR K. WHTDMER. 

